..and again it comes up! Its I think more than a year ever since I last posted asking for help in learning my "mother tongue" and I wont stop seeking that basic identity that I dont have. If any of you knows of anyone who can or is capable of tutoring me to learn our "frequency", please avail yourself and save a "son of the soil". This confession comes with utnost pure intent.
On Sunday, 28 April 2013, <keb...@gmail.com> wrote: > Caleb, > > Well said (or written) and on point. > > Kenneth Amagu > S e n t f r o m m y B l a c k B e r r y ® s m a r t p h o n e > > -----Original Message----- > From: Caleb Alaka <calebal...@yahoo.com> > Sender: westnilenet-bounces@kym.netDate: Sun, 28 Apr 2013 11:58:30 > To: A Virtual Network for friends of West Nile<westnilenet@kym.net> > Reply-To: A Virtual Network for friends of West Nile <westnilenet@kym.net> > Subject: Re: [WestNileNet] Learning the Lugbara Language - A bloggers 2 > cents-a good read! > > Yes I believe interest is material when it comes to learning a foreign language. Lugbara language for long has been made complicated by Lugbaras failure to Open Up and learn other languages. Most of our people who lived in Kampala in 1970s did not learn Luganda. Reason was that the Baganda were proud. Most Lugbaras some tine ago could not learn Kakwa, Madi or Alur, reason, some naive superiority complex and defining Arua as the boundary of what they need. If you have interest in learning other languages and you open up to other people, your language begins to grow and with new terms adopted it becomes rich. why should we have one word for example 'ti' to mean, mouth, language, cow, giving birth e.t.c, why should we still call a girl child as 'eza mva' after meat, and not oku mva, since male species are 'agupia mva' and 'tia mva' ndria anva, aua mva, for animals. in Uganda, various events and tabloids are building a certain diction and they have imported words which is bound to remain part of our diction, semantics and create our English. In Uganda today names of places far away mean different things, I do not intend to vulgarize the debate but for example Kandahar, Vuvuzela, mean different things in Uganda. Now because of trade and movements, attitudes are changing, Lubgaras can now speak Kakwa, Madi, Luganda, e.t.c. I am sure as more people speak a dialect of Lugbara which is not typical Vura, Terego, Maracha or Ayivu, we are bound to develop a high breed which cuts across the small counties called tribes in Arua and hopefully our language will become simpler to learn. > > Sent from my iPhone > > On Apr 28, 2013, at 11:03 AM, Asaf Adebua <asaf...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Just Charles Male and Maandera have the points. >> Awa'difo imini. >> >> >> On 4/28/13, Charles Male <cdm...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> Who says Lugbara is difficult... >>> >>> We Africans all speak English or French because we had no choice if we >>> were to progress follow the paths of our colonisers... >>> >>> English or French was drilled into our heads from early childhood... >>> >>> depending on who our conquerors were (English or French) >>> >>> If Lugbaras conquered the world like the English and French did... the >>> whole world would be speaking and learning Lugbara...as easy as >>> learning English or French.. >>> >>> And as we all know...everyone is getting ready to learn chinese.... >>> >>> Just think of how wide spread Lugbara is spoken in Koboko... >>> >>> Kakwa had no choice... >>> >>> There were no written books in kakwa... >>> >>> Missionaries used lugbara books... >>> >>> Most teachers in Koboko were lugbara speaking... >>> >>> Most Kakwa who wanted an education migrated to Arua and beyond... >>> >>> I never had any Kakwa language instruction.. >>> >>> But I have had lugbara as a language of instruction as well as a subject.. >>> >>> In fact, I had an option of completing my A levels in UK a few decades >>> ago... and i was required to take a foreign language... >>> >>> My choice was lugbara NOT Kakwa because there were a few lugbaras in >>> London at that time who could guide me... >>> >>> But opportunity to migrate to Canada came so I abandoned England and >>> continued my education in Canada instead... >>> >>> As someone who is fluent in both Kakwa and lugbara and understands >>> Madi, I think kakwa is the most difficult of all the west nile >>> languages... >>> >>> Just ask those who studied in St Charles Lwanga, Koboko... >>> >>> How many returned to their counties knowing more than "Adinyo"... >>> >>> Even during exile life...the lugbara and madi who were in kakwa or > -- Buchsa All rights reserved.
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